“A massive crowd full of Toronto residents and tourists showed up at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) over the weekend in hopes of visiting the museum for free in celebration of its 110th anniversary.”

The Royal Ontario Museum retained Lord to provide analysis and recommendations to the museum’s marketing and visitor experience plans. We continue to provide strategic advice to ROM on audience development.

“It will be formally called the ‘Royal BC Museum PARC Campus,’ with PARC being an acronym for Provincial Archives, Research, and Collections. As the name suggests, this is a critical modern purpose-built building dedicated to the provincial museum’s archives, research, and collections needs, including the storage of the provincial museum’s vast collections.”

“A cemetery hidden under a Florida air base is the latest African American burial site rediscovered following decades of erasure. In 2019, Rodney Kite-Powell, a historian at the Tampa Bay History Center, alerted the base that a cemetery used from the 1840s to the 1920s by the local Black community was part of its land.”

Lord Cultural Resources was retained to prepare a master plan for a new Tampa Bay History Center. This included comparables and market analyses, institutional planning, site selection, space planning, and contributing to exhibit and program planning, as well as projections of attendance, operating revenues and expenses.

“Announced by Minister Lawrence MacAulay; MP Sean Casey; MP Heath MacDonald; Premier Dennis King; Minister Ernie Hudson; and the Centre’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Bellamy, this project will create greener spaces for diverse and inclusive programming and learning opportunities, enriching the community and boosting the region’s arts sector.”

Lord Cultural Resources worked with the board and executive team to unify a vision for the future of the Centre, and we are thrilled that the outcome helped to secure funding for its revitalization. 

“Those striking include curators, researchers, technicians, designers, electricians, carpenters and instructors.”

“From specifically adapted performances to telling new stories about memory, drama groups are innovating with music, movement and wordless performance to bring the joy of theatre to everyone.”

“Diversity and inclusion is an important area of focus to Jennifer Bouchard, the chief people and administration officer at the Museum of Ice Cream parent company Figure8. For Bouchard and her colleagues, diversity and inclusion, she said, ‘makes us better.’”

“Tate Britain has installed a new video addressing a controversial mural by Rex Whistler while a statue of slave trader Edward Colston has gone on view in a Bristol museum.”

“The museum and monument park are among a growing number of sites across the country opening in the past decade to preserve and celebrate Black History and the Black experience in America. Some are multimillion-dollar museums, while others are housed in small interpretive centers.”

“Wokingham Borough Council approved planning permission for the London museum‘s collections, research and digitisation centre, which will house 28 million specimens – around a third of the museum’s collection.”

“The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles is the largest in the country devoted to moviemaking, with more than 23 million items on display. The items on view include the typewriter Joseph Stefano used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," a page from Gregory Peck's annotated working script for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and costumes from "The Godfather."

“Why are talented women still so shunned by the profession? From an epic New Zealand railway to a mirrored Kyiv tower with a helipad, a new book celebrates the thrilling work of 100 groundbreakers.”

“Learning the notes, melodies, and messages of posters by Indigenous designers will only strengthen our communities and add such needed songs back into humanity.”

“A new exhibition at the Morgan Library explores the legacy of its inaugural director, who amassed a trove of rare books and prints while passing as a White woman in segregated America.”

“Generations of creatives once flocked to the city seeking affordable rent. Now, despite skyrocketing real estate prices, some continue to carve out studio spaces of their own.”

“The Perth Museum in Scotland is unveiling digital reconstructions of men and women who lived in the region from the Bronze Age through the 16th century.”

“An interactive exhibit opening Wednesday at the museum will use artificial intelligence to let visitors hold virtual conversations with images of veterans, including a Medal of Honor winner who died in 2022.”

“Hundreds of families got the short end of the snozzberry after being duped by AI images advertising what turned out to be a disastrous Chocolate Factory experience last weekend in Glasgow, Scotland.”

“Yannick Lintz, the president of Paris’ Musée Guimet, believes provenance is key to understanding whether objects have a place in museums outside their origin.”

“A haul of historic objects looted following the Battle of Okinawa make their way home after almost 80 years.”